I'm David Farrier in New Zealand are accidentally marooned in America, and I want to figure out what makes this country tick.

We're trying something a little different today, something we're calling flights of fancy.

We're going to do it every now and then,

and today's the first time, and I think you'll like it.

I say that because we really liked making it.

Now a while back, if you follow me on Instagram you would have seen a prompt

where I wanted you to pitch a deeply American topic that you could speak on.

Maybe it was a job you had or some other personal insight that you could give into something truly American.

Maybe you worked at Buckies or in the lower depths of the White House.

I heard from so many of you, like hundreds of you, with so many ideas.

Rob made a fancy spreadsheet to collate all your responses and we picked a bunch we liked.

We'll do this prompt again later in the year,

so follow me at David Farrier on social media if you want to take part.

We then got those people and we zoomed with some of them,

getting them to explain that area of expertise.

We met a true cross section of America and some of the topics you're about to learn about.

Some of them we're going to dive deeper into later in the year. learn about what they want to to learn about,

some of them we're going to dive deeper into later in the year.

But for now, this is Flights of Fancy,

where we talk to Flightless Bird listeners

about what they want to see on Flightless bird. Enjoy.

Flightless.

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